emilio-berti / monkey-write

Where did you arrived?

According to the infinite monkey theorem, a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare. It's time to have fun with that.

This repo has code to concatenate random words from the Linux dictionary of American English; I excluded proper nouns to make it more interesting.

To run the app, type in terminal bash src/monkey-write.sh $1, where $1 is the number of words in the sentence.

I made a monkey cow to use in cowsay (src/monkey.cow). You can use it by copying it to the cowsay file folder (cp src/monkey.cow /usr/share/cowsay/cows, maybe sudo it) and specifying cowsay -f monkey.

Example:

bash src/monkey-write.sh 25 | cowsay -f monkey

 ____________________________________
/ archenemy's eyesore's femininity's \
| contiguity's alphabet's cumulus's  |
| climaxed claimants austerity's     |
| charities guesses expression       |
| anarchist's drudge disadvantage's  |
| convulsions booms butterfingers's  |
| firstly dingo's catgut's earthworm |
\ dimensional disguising chiaroscuro /
 ------------------------------------
\
   .-"-.
 _/.-.-.\_
( ( o o ) )
 |/  "  \|
  \ .-. /
  /`"""`\
 /       \

Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of Latinum

The quark-says.sh will trigger Quark to teach you a random Rule of Aquisition.

This script looks for relative paths, so you can alias it in ~/.bashrc if you want:

echo "alias quark='/home/whereyouputit/monkey-write/src/quark-says.sh'" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
quark

Rule of Aquisition # 48 : The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.